Extraction of Bilingual Cognates from Wikipedia
Authors | Pablo Gamallo Marcos Garcia |
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Publication date | 2012 |
DOI | 10.1007/978-3-642-28885-2_7 |
Links | Original |
Extraction of Bilingual Cognates from Wikipedia - scientific work related to Wikipedia quality published in 2012, written by Pablo Gamallo and Marcos Garcia.
Overview
In this article, authors propose a method to extract translation equivalents with similar spelling from comparable corpora. The method was applied on Wikipedia to extract a large amount of Portuguese-Spanish bilingual terminological pairs that were not found in existing dictionaries. The resulting bilingual lexicons consists of more than 27,000 new pairs of lemmas and multiwords, with about 92% accuracy.
